Monday, March 10, 2008

Makes sense to me

There's an interview with Grant Morrison on Newsarama, having to do in great part with All-Star Superman. I like Morrison, but I've not read All-Star Superman. Not a big Superman fan.

Anyway, there's a bit in there where Morrison is talking about Superman's marriage to Lois, and ways they considered handling it:


It was the only thing we could do with what I still think was a bad idea. The marriage damaged the dynamic of Superman comics quite severely, but if we broke up the relationship of these two great fictional lovers, Superman would immediately seem ineffectual and ultimately beaten by his foes, walking around for the rest of his life not knowing Lois was ever his wife or whatever.

So we opted to keep Lois Lane and the marriage intact. It’s kind of an interesting reflection of what recently happened in Spider-Man, where they did choose to magically unmarry the hero to predictable howls of protest. Then again, I actually think they’ll be able to make that one work if they just grit their teeth for a couple of years until the new status quo becomes accepted, so who knows?


Spider-Man, of course, is a very different sort of hero than Superman. But still, interesting to see how different creators approach essentially the same issue.

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